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If you're running from a woolly mammoth, the adrenaline pump of anxiety might save your life. But if your boss' critical "FYI . . . " evokes a similar flight/fight response, you need to tamp it down, writes psychologist Chansky, founder of a Philadelphia anxiety center.

We often believe our own thoughts, but they often lie -- especially when they focus on worst-case scenarios. "Your bad thoughts are negative exaggerations of the story of your life," she writes.